The award ceremony took place on Tuesday at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.

The award founded by Jan Karski is given by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York. The cash prize is about $5000.

"I feel extremely honored to receive this award because it is one of the most important awards for those who deal with Polish-Jewish issues and the Holocaust," said Alina Skibinska during the ceremony.

Skibinska is a researcher of the history of Polish Jews during the Nazi occupation. She is a Polish representative of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. She is also a member of Polish Center for Holocaust Research of Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.